The WORST episodes of Sanctuary
Every episode of Sanctuary ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of Sanctuary!
Sanctuary follows the adventures of the beautiful, enigmatic and always surprising Dr. Helen Magnus, a brilliant scientist who holds the secrets of a clandestine population called Abnormals - a group of strange and sometimes terrifying beings that hide among humans. Magnus seeks to protect this threatened phenomena as well as unlock the mysteries behind their existence.
#1 - Fugue
Season 4 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/25/2011
A mysterious abnormal attacks Abby, and Magnus and Will discover there's only one way to communicate with this unusual enemy - through music.
#2 - Next Tuesday
Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 12/4/2009
Magnus and Will are called to make a straightforward retrieval of a rare Abnormal off the coast of Louisiana. With a commissioned helicopter, the retrieval is successful and their cargo securely on board. But as the pair starts heading back to the mainland, something causes the unusual sea creature to break loose. Unable to control the Abnormal and the helicopter simultaneously, Magnus and Will make a crash landing and find themselves entangled in guy wire, precariously dangling over an abandoned oil bore well several feet above the water in the middle of the Gulf of Mexico. With the Abnormal nowhere to be found, Magnus concludes it has made its getaway into the depths of the water. But their solitude doesn’t last long. Not only does the Abnormal return, it’s even angrier than before. And Magnus and Will quickly learn they must escape or become its next victim.
#3 - Wingman
Season 3 - Episode 15 - Aired 5/9/2011
Will and Henry's double date goes awry when Magnus tasks them with an Abnormal delivery.
#4 - Pavor Nocturnus
Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 11/6/2009
A disoriented Magnus wakes up to find the Sanctuary in ruins and the entire city decimated, with no memory of how the devastation occurred. While surveying the destruction, she is attacked by an inhuman creature but saved by two armed men who stun her and take her to an abandoned warehouse. After being hosed down and left shivering and exhausted, Magnus fears the worst when a battle-scarred figure enters the room.
#5 - Penance
Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 12/11/2009
Magnus is reunited with an old friend, Jimmy who is transporting a valuable elemental Abnormal to the Sanctuary for safety. But an underground mob accustomed to cashing in on the Abnormal black market, tracks down Jimmy and his valuable cargo before the delivery is complete. Magnus and Jimmy find themselves in a dangerous shootout, determined to save the Abnormal. Will, Kate and Henry are quick on the scene as backup. Kate proves her worth when she manages to get Jimmy and the Abnormal to safety. But not before taking a shot from one of the mobsters herself. Hiding out in an abandoned, derelict motel room until the immediate danger of the mob passes, Jimmy tends to Kate’s gunshot wound. With little to do but talk and wait for Magnus to find them, Jimmy and Kate discover an unexpected common history.
#6 - Instinct
Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/19/2008
Magnus and the Sanctuary team attempt to capture a rare and deadly creature - all under the watchful eye of a local news crew.
#7 - Warriors
Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/12/2008
Investigating the disappearance of an old college friend, Will finds himself caught in an underground fight club where the combatants are genetically engineered abnormals who fight to the death like modern day gladiators.
#8 - Fata Morgana
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/10/2008
Dr. Helen Magnus, her daughter Ashley, and new to the Sanctuary, Dr. Will Zimmerman release three women from a mysterious crypt in Scotland, bringing them back to the Sanctuary for refuge. Unbeknownst to the team, and the women themselves, they have extraordinary powers. And their disappearance does not go undetected by a powerful cabal, resolute on reclaiming what it determines is theirs.
#9 - Metamorphosis
Season 3 - Episode 14 - Aired 5/2/2011
Will's transformation has him literally climbing the walls.
#10 - Folding Man
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/17/2008
An investigation into a string of bizarre robberies leads Magnus and Will to a crime ring of thieves who seem to be able to slip between the cracks of the law…literally.
#11 - Fragments
Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/13/2009
Dr. Helen Magnus fights to save the life of one of the Sanctuary’s research scientists who was viciously attacked by a seemingly docile Abnormal. Baffled by the creature’s uncharacteristic behavior, Henry tries to figure out what, or who, caused the domesticated Abnormal to react so violently.
#12 - Hero
Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/30/2009
A superhero is trapped by Magnus, and his lack of finesse affects the team's work. Elsewhere, Will and Declan go on the search for a creature that's loose in the city, after the discovery of an eggshell.
#13 - Nubbins
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/7/2008
When a mating pair of cute, furry and seemingly harmless abnormals is brought in for scientific study, the Sanctuary team begins to exhibit some hidden animal attractions for one another.
#14 - Kush
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/24/2008
Returning with an abnormal captured in the Himalayas, Magnus and Will are stranded from civilization and aid after their plane goes down in a desolate mountain range. While anxiously waiting for a rescue team, the surviving passengers begin to fall victim to vicious and deadly attacks throughout the night. It becomes chillingly apparent that surviving the cold is the least of their worries and no one, not even Magnus and Will, is above suspicion.
#15 - Requiem
Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 12/5/2008
Magnus and Will investigate a distressing call for help deep below the Bermuda Triangle resulting in a deadly battle to save Magnus’s life.
#16 - Hero II: Broken Arrow
Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 11/12/2010
Kate gains super-hero-like abilities when an Abnormal attaches itself to her for safe keeping.
#17 - One Night
Season 3 - Episode 13 - Aired 4/25/2011
Looking to share a quiet, "normal" evening out with Abby, Will and his date are abducted en route to the restaurant by a desperate gang leader who faces certain death without their help. Then, upon learning the abductor's identity, Magnus suddenly ceases all attempts at rescue.
#18 - Homecoming
Season 4 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/11/2011
Will runs into unexpected trouble and personal revelations on a trip to the Liberian Sanctuary in Monorovia. Meanwhile, Magnus has her hands full when a couple of ne'er-do-well flying Abnormals recruit her help with a questionable scheme.
#19 - The Depths
Season 4 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/16/2011
A quest to capture a legendary Abnormal in Bolivia leaves Will and Magnus injured and trapped in a cave-in, where they confront truths about themselves and their relationship. Henry records video letters to a special someone while working on an invention.
#20 - Resistance
Season 4 - Episode 5 - Aired 11/4/2011
The team tracks an abnormal fugitive, and discovers that Tesla is the head of a secret research lab for a Homeland Security agency that conducts tests on abnormals.
#21 - Revelations (1)
Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 1/2/2009
Abnormals in remote regions are subjected to an airborne biological agent that compels them to launch a violent string of murders
#22 - Sanctuary for All (1)
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 10/3/2008
The enigmatic Dr. Helen Magnus recruits insightful forensic psychiatrist Will Zimmerman to join her in the quest to track, study and protect the strange and often terrifying creatures that secretly populate our world.
#23 - The Five
Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/14/2008
While leading a covert meeting in Rome, Magnus encounters an old friend from her past who confides that the cabal has come to exact revenge on her for the events in "Fata Morgana."
#25 - Bank Job
Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/29/2010
The team goes on a routine mission to retrieve an Abnormal and take it to safety. But the mission becomes anything but routine when they are forced to stage a bank heist in order to protect the public from harm.